Don’t forget our missing children

While the case of Madeleine McCann remains in the spotlight, many others around Europe have been forgotten by the public — along with 82 who disappeared in Ireland, writes Dan Buckley.

WHEN Robert Holohan went missing from his home near Midleton more than two years ago, every mother and father, in the country could feel his parents’ pain.

Without prompting, hundreds of ordinary people descended on east Cork and scraped the ground on their hands and knees to try to find the 11-year-old boy. The search ended in heartache when his charred body was recovered, and neighbour Wayne O’Donoghue was subsequently convicted of his manslaughter.